The ability for a person to operate satisfactorily in a thing is dependent on how much he knows about that thing. Ignorance is a major cause of inability.
A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.
There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.
Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted - read everything you can get your hands on.
In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly all these good-looking women were interested in me.
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
I recall once seeing a commentary advertised as having been written in prison without recourse to other commentaries and by reliance on the Holy Spirit alone. I doubt whether those last two phrases are complementary. If God has set teachers in the ch...
As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry. If every man has freedom to do all that he wills...
Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual competitors, so it ignores equilibria altogether. Conser...
In treating people as less important than things, work becomes both demoralised and demoralising and we become blind to the moral content of our decisions...Money and wilfful blindness make us act in ways incompatible wiht what believe our ethics to ...
[Three seperate situations happening at the same time] Coach Boone: [Talking to official] Ref! He's lining up offsides! Look, he's *lining* up offsides! Official: [ignoring Coach Boone] Coach Ed Henry: [talking to player] Twins right, 99 Z. Go! Coach...
...People so often ignored their gut because of social niceties and expectations. Luckily Dax didn't have that issue; he was barely fucking civilized.
I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.
Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.
How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.
Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspiration that brings an end to the belief “it’s impossible”!
Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
Don’t ignore or drive away your God sent Davids for you will need them when the life threatening giant Goliaths go on rampage in your life
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
